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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,783, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed April 19, 1884. Serial No. 128,571.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LMosEs J .J ERoME,of Newburg, in the county of Orange, and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a perspective view of my improved ironing-table as arranged for ironing skirts or shirts Fig. 2, a similar view of the same as arranged for ironing sheets, &c., and Fig. 3 a similar view of the table detached from its end support and folded up.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved ironing-table; and to this end it consists of the table adapted for use for ironing shirts or skirts and sheets, and constructed and arranged as hereinafter described, and more specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, A designates the top or main portion of the table, which is of the ordinary form of shirt and skirt ironing boards,

rounded at its outer end and slightly diminishing in breadth toward the other end. This latter end is, as shown, provided with means for attaching it to an upright support, B, which may be the wall of a room, the side of a table, or any fixed support.

The attaching means used by me are the rightangle hooks O and D, of which the former is fixed to one side of the board end and extends vertically, and the other is fixed to the other side of the board and extends horizontally outward.

The supporting-surface B is provided with a staple, E, adapted to receive the hook G, and a staple, F, to receive a hook, D. Below the staple E is pivoted to the support B a turn-button, G, which, as shown in the drawings, is adapted when it is turned up to come in contact with the hook (J, and hold it up in place in its staple. This button is preferably beveled off at its upper end to correspond somewhat with the surface of the hook with which it comes in contact, and is (ModcL) formed with a short shoulder or projection, H, to prevent its being turned too far inward by accident.

With the construction as already described the end of thetable can obviously not become detached from the support B until the button G is turned outward and downward.

The hook D cannot be disengaged from the staple F without a sidewise movement of the end of the table, and such movement is efectually prevented by the engagement of the hook O with the staple E.

To the under side of the board A, near its outer end, is hinged a leg or brace, I, which, as shown, is preferably beveled at its lower end, for a purpose to be hereinafter described. This leg or brace is of a length sufficient to support the board A in a horizontal position when its lower beveled end, z, is resting on the floor.

The table is to be so supported when it is to be used in ironing sheets, &c.

Hinged to the inner and smaller end of the board A is a brace, K, which is of such length as to extend out under the table and rest at its lower end upon the floor at a point below or beyond the middle of the table. It consists of a board broad enough to have considerable bearing-surface at its lower end upon the floor.

The leg or brace I is also, preferably, made of a board of substantially the same width at its lower end, for the same reason and purpose.

The brace K is provided with a groove or long notch, k, in its upper face near its upper end, which is adapted to fit and engage the beveled end of the leg I when it is swung up, as shown in Fig. 2, to adapt the ,table for ironing shirts and skirts. The end of the brace K is beveled to correspond with the surface of the floor upon which it rests. The leg I is of such length, and the notch in the brace K is so situated, that the table will be horizontal,whether the lower end of the leg is supported upon the floor or on the brace K, as described.

WVhen not in use the table can be detached from the wall or other support and compactly folded up, the leg I being first turned up against the table-bottom, and then the brace K against that.

With hooks and staples, arranged as described and shown, it is only necessary to pro vide means for keeping one of the hooks in its staple, as the other cannot then get loose.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, What I claim asnew 1s In combination with the ironing board or table intended to be attached to a fixed support, the hooks fixed to the end of the board and extending therefrom, the one upward and the other outward horizontally, the staples on 1 the fixed support adapted to receive such hooks, and a movable locking-piece on the fixed support adapted to be moved under the upwardly-extending hook to hold it up in its staple, substantially as and for the purpose de- 20 WVitnesses:

CHAS. L. CHATTERTON, WILLIAM LENDRUM. 

